“My daughter will not be taking the “state mandated” NEW SAT on March 2nd 2016.”
According to a new “state mandate,” approximately 40,000 Connecticut high school juniors will not be attending their classes on March, 2, 2016. Instead they will be taking another “Common Core aligned” standardized test – this time the NEW SAT.
The attempt to force the state’s 11th graders to take the NEW SAT is not about helping students, improving graduating rates or expanding the number of people who go to college.
This new “mandate” is part of the broader corporate education reform agenda that is crippling public education in Connecticut and across the nation.
In this case, it is about trying to force children to take a test that will then be used to label those students and provide the state with faulty information to evaluate Connecticut’s teachers.
Parents should we aware of what it taking place and step up to ensure that our children are not being used as pawns in his massive testing farce.
Here is the background;
Thanks to a contract signed by Governor Dannel Malloy’s Commissioner of Education, Dianna R. Wentzell and approved by Malloy’s political appointees on the State Board of Education, Connecticut taxpayers will be shelling out in excess of $4.3 million in scarce public funds, over the next three years, to the College Board, the company that owns the “My daughter will not be taking the “state mandated” NEW SAT on March 2nd 2016.” - Wait What?: